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Just in case you were wondering. I wasn’t.

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Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, updated its admissions policy to open it to students not born as girls, “but identify or live as women” as long as there is legal proof that the man is transitioning over to become a woman or is legally a woman. Those identifying as neither male nor female, known as binary students, will also be eligible to apply, according to the college’s revised admissions policy.

They probably have all the lesbians they need.

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Of course he is.

California is doing everything it can to pretend it’s not really part of the U.S.

I think we ought to send them on their way, with a farewell present of all our illegal migrants.

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The Climate Change Chicken Little Syndrome will now be paid for by YOU.

Democrats: Party of Fear–Party of Hate–Party of Death

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At YOUR expense, of course.

As Jerry Pournelle liked to say, the purpose of government is to hire and pay government workers.

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Obama’s famous ‘phone and pen’ comes back to bite Democrats square on the butt. Even their puppet judges can stop Trump everywhere.

The Imperial Presidency isn’t quite so hot once the Emperor is one of the Dirt People.

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That’s the first positive thing I’ve ever heard about Facebook. I doubt that it’s true, of course (whose turn is it to play the victim?), but I keep my hopes up.

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‘Nancy, you ignorant slut …’ Just kidding.

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Soon to be a major motion picture, I have no doubt.

Ace of Spades pulls it all together for you.

Just another day in paradise….

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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I certainly hope so.

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Pelosi is spending the holiday at The Fairmont Orchid resort on Hawaii’s Big Island, according to The Washington Free Beacon. A standard room at the luxury resort starts at just under $1,000 per night and accommodation can cost nearly $5,000 per night for the presidential suite.

Hey, botox doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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In fact, the word “PETA” has become a pejorative for stunts, gimmicks, and putting feelings over facts when it comes to animal issues. I argue in my new book, The End of Animal Farming, that animal rights will succeed in building a food system where we eat meat, dairy, and eggs without the use of animals, but it’s a tragic irony that one of the biggest obstacles for activists might be the bad reputation of its best-known advocates.

‘Animal rights’ isn’t a movement, it’s a mental disorder.

Ann Coulter takes you behind the scenes.

You Can’t Make This Shit Up — because some proglodyte has beaten you to it.

The Antiplanner points out how people are getting a hernia tugging on their own bootstraps.

Finally, part of the problem is that the policies regional planners adopt to save their cities from becoming like other cities are usually the policies planners in those other regions adopted that made them what they are. Every county in the San Francisco Bay Area adopted urban-growth boundaries in the 1970s (except San Francisco County itself, which has no rural land). So, to keep from becoming like San Francisco, Seattle adopted an urban-growth boundary in the 1980s. For some reason, it didn’t work.

Steve Sailer does his usual inconvenient truth.

This is what worries the Establishment most about Trump: the terror that he might ask some common-sensical but verboten question like:

Why do we give Israel so much money?

Why don’t black guys try committing fewer crimes?

If we take in dumb immigrants, won’t they have dumb kids?

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They aren’t prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse, either . So what?

Chicken Little Syndrome has quite obviously infected the people at Forbes magazine.

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This is in Forbes, allegedly a business magazine but in reality these days just another Voice of the Crust.

Totally undiscussed in this article is (a) why ‘wealth inequality’ is a bad thing and (b) why increasing ‘wealth inequality’ is a bad thing.

The author has a great deal of expertise in accounting but no obvious expertise either in accounting or philosophy. He has strongly-held opinions, obviously, but apparently feels under no obligation to explain why we should give a shit.

I could start screaming CHUCK SCHUMER IS COVERED IN MOSQUITO BITES! and it wouldn’t tell you a damned thing about Chuck Schumer (other than the fact that he was maybe covered in mosquito bites). Unless I make the effort to connect the dots (no pun intended), it takes not one step on the road to justifying my obvious opinion that being covered with mosquito bites somehow implies a failing on the part of Chuck Schumer. Unless that effort is made, I may feel sorry for Chuck Schumer on account of all of his mosquito bites, but it doesn’t tell me anything negative about his character. Similarly, telling me that Jeff Bezos gets paid a squillion times what one of his package-stuffers is paid tells me nothing about Jeff Bezos except that he is highly compensated. It may make me envy Jeff Bezos but it doesn’t tell me a damned thing about his character. If you think that’s a bad thing, EXPLAIN WHY.

Misogyny on 34th Street

Shocker: Beheadings Were Terrorist Act

Two Blonde Scandinavian Girls Murdered by Muslims in Morocco Stupidity is always a capital crime. Think of it as evolution in action.

Images Of Scandinavian Woman Murdered By ISIS Sent To Victim’s Mother

19 People Arrested Over Murder Of Two Women In Morocco. Four Suspects Reportedly Pledged Allegiance To ISIS

Norway Confirms Authenticity Of Video Showing Scandinavian Girl’s Beheading

Hate Preachers in German Mosques, Part 2

Zineb el-Rhazoui: “Islam Has to Submit to French Republican Laws”

Somali Mujahid Arrested in Bari

Mogadishu bombing: At least 13 killed in blast near presidential palace in Somali capital

Al-Qaeda plotting new plane attacks in Europe after ‘resurgence’ of terror group, security minister warns

Four cousins shot dead in Pakistan over ‘family honour’ on orders of village council, police say

Another One Rides the Bus — And Punches the Driver

Meanwhile, Back in France…

Is Islam Compatible with Free-Market Capitalism? An Empirical Analysis, 1970–2010

Muslims love Jesus. So why does everyone think we hate Christmas?

Christian man ‘beaten and threatened by Islamic extremists’ in Pakistan faces imminent deportation from UK

Grandpa Says: Keep That Money Flowing!

Kabul attack: Dozens killed in bomb and gun assault on welfare building in Afghan capital

Sajid Javid suggests there could be ‘cultural reasons’ for Pakistani grooming gangs  Can you spell I*S*L*A*M? I’m sure you can.

Washington Post More or Less Confirms That Jamal Khashoggi Was a Paid Qatari Intelligence/Propaganda Asset

Israel airstrikes on Syria raise tensions across Middle East

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: British woman jailed in Iran allowed visit from daughter to mark 40th birthday

Suspected Islamic State Terrorists Arraigned in Sweden

Friend of Downing Street bomb plotter convicted of trying to join Isis

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My question is, how many black people were murdered in Chicago, Baltimore, or D.C. — all Democrat-ruled cities — during that same time period? Just for perspective.

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Gastelum announced that the caravan is “hitting us hard. It’s costing us 550,000 pesos a day.” In American dollars, that is the equivalent of approximately $28,000.

Imagine how much this would be contributing to the American economy if we let them all in, as Democrats demand.

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Glock for me. But your mileage may differ.

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Sure, open the border! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

Ace of Spades likes the ongoing Democrat soap opera.

Congresswoman is the sort of Young Pioneer that socialism throws up every now and then to rouse the masses. She really needs to wear a red neck cloth and strike a heroic pose now and again.

Stock Market Gains Over 1000 Points In Biggest Single-Day Gain in History  Waiting for Obama: ‘That was me, people; say thank you.’

So Now the Democrats Are Hawks?  An entertaining compilation of DemLegHump Media being wrong and getting smacked for it.

Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam?  And if he did, who the Hell cares? Nobody gave a shit over Clinton’s draft-dodging.

Why the Trump presidency will end poorly  Jonah Goldberg never passes up an opportunity to punch right. If you ever wonder why Republicans can never have nice things, this is the reason.

Media Attacks Trump For Not Visiting The Troops While He’s Visiting Troops In Iraq

Morning Mirror: Trump And FLOTUS’s Iraq Trip Leave Montel, Milano Confused

Jemele Hill Doesn’t Think Calling Trump A Racist Is ‘Controversial’  It isn’t, in her circles.

David Axelrod Accuses Trump Of Wallowing In ‘An Orgy Of Self-Pity’ Over Christmas  I guess people weren’t paying enough attention to David Axelrod.

CNN’s Bakari Sellers Says Trump Shouldn’t Get Credit For Visiting Iraq Because It’s What He Was Supposed To Do

CNN Tattles On Troops For Holding MAGA Hats During Trump’s Iraq Visit

UN Free Speech Czar Says Trump Is ‘Worst’ Purveyor Of Fake News  Worse than the U.N.? I think not.

Trump Goes to Iraq, #FakeNews Media Embarrass Themselves

NYT’s Editorial Board Claims That ‘Trump Imperils The Planet’

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Well, it’s actually Schumer and Pelosi’s shutdown. Welcome to our world, parasites.

Victor Davis Hanson points out some inconvenient truth.

After 19 months, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has charged a number of targets with almost every conceivable sin — except collusion with Russia to throw an election. Yet suspicion of collusion was the reason that Mueller was appointed in the first place.

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He committed the sin of noticing that she was being, well, an asshole.

And Democrats want these people in charge of our health care.

Steve Sailer does a little fisking.

Okay … well, maybe then it would be prudent for Jewish journalists to ease up on the White Privilege talk? Rock-throwing black adolescents in Crown Heights can’t really tell a Bad Gentile Becky from a Good Jewish Becca, and even if they could, they don’t care, so maybe it’s time for Jewish writers to start pointing out to each other that the Beckys and Beccas are all in the same white boat together.

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Recently, Sen. Mazie Hirono claimed that Democrats have a hard time connecting with voters because they (Democrats) are so “smart” and “know so much.” If Democrats are smart and knowledgeable, you can’t prove it by Hirono. She embarrasses herself routinely on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she almost invariably finds herself in over her head.

The latest embarrassment is her attack, along with Sen. Kamala Harris, on a judicial nominee for belonging to the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic social and charitable organization founded in 1882 that, in the words of Ramesh Ponnuru, has heretofore been roughly as controversial as the Rotary Club.. Hirono and Harris are insisting that Brian Buescher, nominated for a U.S. district court judgeship, drop his membership in that organization and recuse himself from cases in which it has taken a position.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Not often you get to see the sausage being made in public like this.

I doubt that Occasional-Cortex is equipped to accept this advice, even if she were equipped to recognize its wisdom. The scorpion is going to sting the frog because that’s its nature.

The Other McCain reads this stuff so you don’t have to.

It seems likely that soon — perhaps within 72 hours — the crew at 4chan will have outed and doxxed “Feminist Next Door” (@emrazz), who will then have a conniption about this “harassment.” But you see she engages in behavior that is typical of feminists: They insult men categorically, and then claim victimhood when men respond with anger.

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Trump’s New Chief of Staff Has Previously Called for Cuts to Social Security  Apparently having a political opinion not shared by the DemLegHump Media disqualifies someone for a job in the government. Who knew?

A potential Trump impeachment is a ‘huge risk’ for 2019, expert says  I wonder whether he was one of the guys predicting that Hillary would win.

Little girl still believes in Santa, despite what Donald Trump told her  So young, and already a Democrat.

Liberals Hate Trump More Than They Love America  Just as Palestinians hate Jews more than they love their children.

Bob Woodward: Government Shutdown Has Become A ‘Governing Crisis’ For Trump  Exercise for the reader: Name one thing that Boob Woodward doesn’t think has become a ‘governing crisis’ for Trump. Take your time; I’ll wait.

Worst of MSNBC in 2018  You know Trump features prominently.  Actually, if it weren’t for Trump, MSNBC wouldn’t have much of anything to talk about.

Union Accuses Trump Of ‘Gambling’ With The Lives Of High-Paid Federal Employees  Better that than with the lives of low-paid military personnel. But Unions don’t care about workers who aren’t union members.

Democratic Coalition Rewrites Christmas Carol To Call For Impeachment

NBC News Misfires On Article Slamming Trump For Not Visiting Troops

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Socialism — it’s not just for Cubans any more.

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Apparently her failing to retire when Obama could pick her replacement somehow Let Down The Side.

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Apparently the Crust thinks it’s okay for People of Color to insult Jews but not for Jews to return the favor (which they never do).

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But it’s the fact that Japan doesn’t give a rat’s ass about their fury that frosts them the most.

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Mark Zuckerberg had created a company to appeal to college students who wanted to rate the cutest girls on campus, but is instead stuck with a monster worth hundreds of billions (that number will continue fluctuating with media hit pieces) used by people with actual jobs to share family photos and talk politics. And it’s the politics part, not the baby photos, that’s turning the heat up on Zuckerberg.

Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars, the marriage, the language lessons, the awkward tour of America, Zuckerberg is still on some level the drunken college kid who got in trouble setting up a site to rate his classmates. He doesn’t understand the stakes of the game. As Facebook aged, it became an unwanted gatekeeper for global politics, instead of for teens doing viral challenges.

Poor Mark. Nobody loves him.

Michelle Goldberg in a New York Times call for regulating Facebook was more direct, “Without Facebook, Donald Trump probably wouldn’t be president, which is reason enough to curse its existence.”

And the mask comes off….

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Can’t tell the victims without a scorecard….

UPDATE: Women’s March Leaders: Yes, We Stated and We Believe That Jews are White Supremacists

UPDATE: Women’s March Loses Donor, More Affiliates Over Anti-Semitism Concerns

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Let’s hear Occasional-Cortex unpack that one.

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It doesn’t surprise that her knowledge of history is on a par with her knowledge of economics.

I’m wondering how she gets around the fact that Mary & Joseph didn’t cross any border in going from Nazareth to Bethlehem, but were actually traveling to Joseph’s ancestral home for the census. I guess if all the illegal migrants went back home for Christmas would be somehow Trump’s fault.

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What I found most interesting about this story is what pushed him over the edge:

The suspect taken into custody is an unemployed man who was reportedly having a problem with local government officials.

Another interesting aspect is this:

Knife-related attacks are not abnormal in China due to strict gun regulations, according to NYT.

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I don’t know which I find more worrying: The fact that Britain has a ‘curry industry’ or the possibility that its decline is significant for Britain. India, sure, but Britain?

ZMan nails it.

Democracy, of course, turns the ruling class of a country into renters. Unlike an owner, a monarch for example, the office holders in a democracy are in it for short term profit. The next election could find them back in the dreaded private sector. In order to hedge against that eventuality, they must convert as much private property into public property, in order to distribute it to friends of government. Democracy is just a formalized version of tragedy of the commons, that always ends in it murdering itself.

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They all look alike to me….

(Judean People’s Front or People’s Front of Judea? We report, you decide.)

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I always figured they ran away with the hangers.

That last part is pure scientific fact. The phenomenon of the missing office spoons once proved so consternating to a group of Australian public health researchers, in fact, that they conducted a whole study on it.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.